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Comment Re:No PVP? (Score 0, Troll) 235

by jamboarder on Thursday November 19, 2009 @03:40PM (#30161810) Attached to: China Enforces Even Stricter Regulation On Games

And that's different with respect to other countries, how? Good thing businesses are so honest in the US or EU countries that they are never giving bribes nor are their people in power accepting them. If only China could learn to be as honest, upstanding and incorruptible as the people in the US Congress and people like Obama and Bush they'd just have such a wonderful utopia.

How is this flamebait?

Comment Re:I certainly don't anymore (Score 2, Insightful) 207

by jamboarder on Thursday November 12, 2009 @04:41PM (#30078506) Attached to: openSUSE 11.2 Released

Oh please just shut up and go away.... Ok, OS X is nice. It's pretty. It does a lot of things well. It "just works". It "gets out of my way". blah, blah, blah. Great, good to hear it... for the bazzilionth time...

Look if there actually exist Linux folk who haven't heard how uber-awesome OS X is, they invariably live under a rock in some deep hole... deliberately. They don't want to come out. For the many of the rest of us who don't live in said hole, guess what? We choose to use (openSuse/Ubuntu/Arch/Mandriva) Linux despite OS X. Why? Cuz we are absolute nutcases who have nothing better to do than to use the piece(s) of software we like.

Device Protects Day Traders From Emotional Trading 260

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @03:17PM from the never-again dept.

Philips Electronics, a Netherlands-based company, has come up with a device designed to protect day traders from emotionally based trading decisions. The Rationalizer measures your galvanic skin response and lets you know when you are under stress. An online trader can then take a "time-out, wind down and re-consider their actions," according to the company. This may have come too late for us, but at least future generations won't have to live through the horror of angry day trading.

Comment Re:Wow, shocking news (Score 1) 607

by jamboarder on Thursday August 20, 2009 @04:16PM (#29138253) Attached to: Xbox 360 Failure Rate Is 54.2%

Nonsense. If the survey was restricted to just the people who report a problem, then the report would say that 360 (and PS3 and Wii) the failure rate 100%.

Let's even suppose then that the sample of people in the report was biased towards people inclined to report a problem. If the actual 360 failure rate was about the same as the PS3 or Wii, the percentage of people in the survey reporting a problem on all three systems would be about the same, even if the sample is biased towards people reporting a problem. The inclusion of the PS3 and Wii in the survey controls for this kind of sample bias.

It is perhaps more credible to argue that the percentages may be biased high for all three systems.

A more significant statistic that could perhaps be taken away from the report is that the 360 fails 5 times as often as the PS3 and 7 times as often as the Wii.

BTW, unit-hours should barely make any difference when your talking about consumer electronics, which in this day and have MTBFs on the order of decades. If the 360 is arguably as reliable as similar consumer electronics, the vast majority should be obsolete long before they fail. No anectodal or statistical evidence I've seen comes close to supporting this.

Comment Re:Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus: TAKE NOTE! (Score 1) 189

by jamboarder on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @04:10PM (#28872463) Attached to: First MS Retail Stores Will be In Scottsdale, AZ and Mission Viejo, CA

Last time I checked there were no laptops or desktops that were either manufactured or "Designed by Microsoft". So how exactly will Microsoft cut Dell, HP Lenovo, Asus, etc. out of the equation? How exactly will it piss them off if Microsoft sells their products in a Microsoft-branded store?

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